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25 Centimes
| Issuer | Commune de Douéra (Department of Alger) |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on red paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative border of interlocking floral and geometric ornaments arranged along all four edges. The issuer's name appears at the top within the border, with the denomination stated in both word form at left and in large numeral at right. Two lines of authorizing text at the bottom reference the deliberation of the Municipal Council of 19 November 1916 and the requirement of the mayoral stamp. |
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| Protection type | Handstamp |
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Douéra is a small commune southwest of Algiers, and like dozens of Algerian municipalities during the First World War, it resorted to issuing its own emergency fractional notes when wartime metal shortages pulled centimes coins out of circulation almost entirely. The French metropolitan government could not supply adequate small change to the colonies, so local authorities improvised — printing or typing denominations on paper and stamping them with an official cachet to confer legitimacy.
The handstamp was the only security feature available to most of these communes, and its impression quality varies considerably across surviving examples. Forgery was a practical concern even at this denomination.